Bill Text: MS SB2827 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Riding bailiffs; shall be employees of sheriff.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee [SB2827 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-SB2827-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: County Affairs
By: Senator(s) Walls
Senate Bill 2827
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-25-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT RIDING BAILIFFS SHALL BE EMPLOYEES OF THE SHERIFF; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 19-25-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
19-25-31. Each judge of a circuit, chancery or county court, or a court of eminent domain may, in the judge's discretion, by order entered on the minutes of the court, allow the sheriff riding bailiffs to serve in the respective court of such judge, not to exceed four (4) bailiffs. Any such person so employed shall be employees of the sheriff paid by the county * * * in an amount of Fifty-five Dollars ($55.00) for each day, or part thereof, for which he serves as bailiff when the court is in session. No full-time deputy sheriff shall be paid as a riding bailiff of any court. County court judges shall be limited to one (1) bailiff per each court day.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2010.
